CA Release Automation Contract Job Trends in the North West

CA Release Automation (CA RA) formerly Nolio
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CA Release Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 117 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing CA Release Automation 15 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 0.042% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.12% 0.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £305 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% - -
75th Percentile £460 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
England median daily rate £398 £356 -
% change year-on-year +11.66% - -

All Development Application Skills
North West

CA Release Automation falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 364 225 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.99% 9.49% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 140 233
10th Percentile £313 £325 £337
25th Percentile £364 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -10.48% -
75th Percentile £537 £555 £619
90th Percentile £635 £614 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 33
10th Percentile £66.70 - £45.88
25th Percentile £70.04 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%
75th Percentile £76.88 £49.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £51.00 £77.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

CA Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CA Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CA Release Automation in the North West

CA Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CA Release Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CA Release Automation

CA Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CA Release Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CA Release Automation in the North West

CA Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CA Release Automation within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -10 13 £393 +10.39% 1
Manchester - 2 £416 - 1
CA Release Automation
England

CA Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (93.33%) JBoss
2 10 (66.67%) Apache
2 10 (66.67%) IIS
2 10 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 9 (60.00%) iPlanet
3 9 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (93.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 14 (93.33%) Git
3 11 (73.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (33.33%) JIRA
5 4 (26.67%) SonarQube
5 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.67%) Gradle
6 1 (6.67%) HP UFT
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (6.67%) JUnit
6 1 (6.67%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) NetBeans
6 1 (6.67%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) OAuth
1 10 (66.67%) OpenID
1 10 (66.67%) SAML
2 9 (60.00%) LDAP
3 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.67%) J2EE
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
5 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (46.67%) Unix
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (46.67%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Build Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Observability
5 4 (26.67%) Runbook
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (6.67%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Groovy
2 7 (46.67%) Shell Script
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) Perl
4 4 (26.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (80.00%) Docker
3 7 (46.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Progress Chef
2 10 (66.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 9 (60.00%) CA Wily
4 7 (46.67%) Tivoli
5 4 (26.67%) Kibana
5 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (26.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) AppDynamics
1 13 (86.67%) Splunk
2 10 (66.67%) Broadcom
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (60.00%) IBM
3 9 (60.00%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) Cloudera
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central